Give Up Harper, It's Pointless

It seems to me and our beloved pollsters that Prime Minister Stephen Harper's trip to Afghanistan failed to boost the "waning public support for the combat mission" (The Ottawa Citizen, March 25, 2006) ... recent polls suggest that only 52% backed the use of our troops "for security and combat efforts against the Taliban and al-Qaeda" ... so, as most polls go - subtract an extra couple percent from the percentage given, in order to get an accurate answer... therefore, it's quite doubtful that 52% of the population supports this, for lack of a better word, "bullshit"

"Mr. Harper's trip didn't do much" yea... that was kind of obvious - something tells me that hoping on a plane, fleeing the country and supporting a cause that a great many of Canadians think to be utterly ridiculous isn't going to gain any popularity points - getting a new hair cut would probably have been more successful, instead of a couple hundred dollars to cross the ocean in a big air plane.

Furthermore, during an interview for CTV, Harper told them "it was hard for him to comprehend why come Canadans have such deep-rooted objections to the military mission in Afghanistan" - um... "dude" it could be either because military action is uncalled for, or the fact that every few weeks, one of our own come home in body bags - death for no cause, military action with no reasoning - you do the math.

There are a great many of people who don't like Harper to begin with - I'm even one of them, I'm not going to lie. But there's a decline in support for military operations, and going to munch on camp food and get sand in a pair of shoes isn't going to gain popularity.